Abstract
This article explores the possibility that clients of prostitution could help victims of trafficking. In Spain, prostitution is not prohibited and the men who pay for sex are the first people who make contact with victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Ninety-seven interviews concerning the possible detection and reporting by clients of trafficking for prostitution were analysed, (48 of them with key informants “NGO members, prosecutors and police officers “17 interviews with clients of prostitution and 22 with women who were victims of sex trafficking). The findings presented here show two types of clients, Personalisers and Thingers, with the former being the most likely to collaborate in the detection and rescue of victims of trafficking. However greater awareness in clients of prostitution is needed to enable them to collaborate.
Highlights
This article explores the possibility that clients of prostitution could help victims of trafficking for sexual purposes
The findings presented here show two types of clients, Personalisers and Thingers, with the former being the most likely to collaborate in the detection and rescue of victims of sex trafficking
Two kinds of position appeared regarding the possibility of men who pay for sexual services being able to detect victims of sex trafficking and act in consequence
Summary
The data that are analysed in this study come from wider research into the needs of the victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, commissioned from the authors by the Spanish government and carried out between November 2013 and November 2014.
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